Amphibians and reptiles (exclusive of marine turtles) of the Cayman Islands

Abstract

The first herpetological collections from the Cay- man Islands were made in Grand Cayman by W.B. Richardson and in Cayman Brac and Little Cayman by C.J. Maynard. These were described in several papers by Garman (1887a,b, 1888). Later, English (1912), Barbour and Noble (1916), Cochran (1934), Battersby (1938) and Sackett (1940) reported additional taxa. These papers were summarized by Grant (1940) in his extensive monograph published by the Institute of Jamaica. In a companion paper, listed as an Appendix in Grant's compendium, Lewis provided a detailed historical account of the Cayman Island marine turtle fisheries (Lewis 1940)